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From the Cyborg Manifesto to The User Unconscious

A Commentary by Patricia Ticineto Clough

August 16, 2018 • by Patricia Ticineto Clough

In the following commentary, psychoanalyst and professor for sociology and women studies Patricia Ticineto Clough reflects on how her recent work on the user unconscious expands on/differs from Donna Haraway’s groundbreaking essay “Cyborg Manifesto” in thinking about the human’s relation to/inevitable entanglement with the other-than-human and argues that her proposed ...

From the Cyborg Manifesto to The User Unconscious

Race

On Digital Racism

For Lisa Nakamura

February 21, 2017 • by McKenzie Wark

Digitizing Race draws together three things. The first is the post-racial project of a certain (neo)liberal politics that Bill Clinton took mainstream in the early nineties. Its central conceit was that all the state need do is provide opportunities for everyone to become functional subjects of postindustrial labor and consumption. ...

Education

Citizens of the Cognisphere

February 15, 2017 • by Daniel Sauter

As we prepare a new generation of students for the computational regime (Brueck, 2016) we need to make room for cultural examination and critical reflection—not just to transcribe a liberal arts agenda in "an obligation to develop their abilities to think and live," (Deresiewicz, 2015) —but also to re-instill astonishment and ...

Science & Technology

CRIT: Critical and Radical Information Theory

On Tiziana Terranova

February 13, 2017 • by McKenzie Wark

Contrary to certain popular narratives by latecomers, not everybody went gaga over ‘new media’ back in the late twentieth century. In the cyberculture period, from the popularization of cyberpunk in 1984 to the death of the internet as a purely scientific and military media in 1995, there were plenty of ...

Race

Black Accelerationism

January 27, 2017 • by McKenzie Wark

If accelerationism has a key idea, it is that it is either impossible or undesirable to resist or negate the development of the commodity economy coupled with technology. Rather, it has to be pushed harder and faster, that it has to change more rather than less. It is an idea, a ...

Education

How to Think through Cages

November 3, 2016 • by Santiago Zabala

What I liked so much about these suggestions was the subtle call to think without fear and without expectations. The cages will always be there, but I came to understand how important it is to create a philosophical cage that allows you to leave it. When would leaving become necessary? ...

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Dividuum

On Gerald Raunig

November 3, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

Like Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain, who was so surprised to learn that all these years he has been speaking prose, people are often shocked to learn that they think in concepts. It’s not just us theorists who make up funny meanings for funny words. Take the word individual. It seems ordinary enough. ...